This continues Alasdair's long-standing love affair and deeply creative interaction with the traditional music of his native Scotland (and beyond), offering an idiosyncratic and nuanced radicalization of that tradition. Songs addressing topics such as mortality, life, love, sex, faith, and history. The arrangements are dense with the music of friends, realizing the lifeblood of community, and throughout the album, they are presented with raucously cinematic flair. In the middle of it all, Roberts delivers his finger style guitar and distinctive tenor vocals with the backing of a core group of Glasgow musicians -- Ben Reynolds (electric guitar), Shane Connolly (drums), Rafe Fitzpatrick (fiddle, rap), Stevie Jones (bass), and with special guest vocals from Olivia Chaney, as well as appearances from many other players on strings, brass, flute and accordion.